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  1. Bug #676258
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 676258

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert (davidgil-uk) wrote :

Reopened, looking at todays build we see:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/64528090/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-armel.linux_2.6.38-4.31_BUILDING.txt.gz

make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/debian/build/tools-/tools/perf'
Makefile:587: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
PERF_VERSION = 2.6.38-rc5
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/debian/build/tools-/tools/perf'
make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/debian/build/tools-/tools/perf'
Makefile:587: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev

Looks like an easy fix and would make perf a lot easier to use; I guess just needing libnewt-dev as a build dependency and a libnewt dependency on the resulting linux-tools-* deb. Perf with the tui is a lot nicer.

Dave